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And another thing, the Australian Liberal Party seem to have gone into hibernation! I seem to have missed something, because I had always mistakenly believed that we had legislation in place to make the behaviour of the ABC clearly illegal! I must've confused here with somewhere like Iran?

Only on the ABC could Heiss' rubbish be considered a 'Big Idea'. Well, maybe also at Fairfax (By the way, those circulation figures that you posted for the Age yesterday were chilling. It's just a matter of time now).

Obviously different rules apply depending on opinions held. Apparently I'm not allowed to assign a tag to the host, but it's OK for my tag to be changed at will. Fair critique is not abuse, but unfortunately many posting, blinded by bigotry, can't distinguish one from the other.

My comment is not there either. Nothing racist about it. Maybe they'll put them all up later today. It's hard work moderating comments at the ABC. There are endless phone calls and coffee breaks to sort out. A lot of people there don't know how to work computers so moderation is a specialized art.

I listened with half an ear to this 'interview', while busy doing something else far more productive: viz. the ironing, most useful for letting off the steam induced by this piece of softball.

Anita Heiss shows herself to be a motor mouth of extreme proportions, and somewhat hysterical in her presentation, as well as completely self-serving in her views. But no doubt some luvvie comments will be organised in good time today. Not to do so would be very racist, as Ms. Heiss (awarded an unstated in this interview $90K to assist her independent work) is obviously too disadvantaged to deal honestly with even the carefully expressed critiques of her positional stance that emerge naturally from the unintended irony of her claims.

Meanwhile, as I await the comments, I will keep on doing the ironying.

My comment hasn't appeared yet is it racial vilification ?"By your mother's own published statements you are of racially mixed parentage. There are many people of full Aboriginal background who have suffered far greater disadvantage than you who may be more deserving of the perks you gain from personal racial identification.Using an unjust law to silence a valid question for the Australian community to discuss is cowardly."

Quite a few comments there now. Almost all of them are consistent with the comments taken down from the Random House site and the ABC site, and with the comments on the Amazon site i.e. "Couldn't care less about how she identifies, really care that she uses the legal system to silence anyne who disagrees with her."